Roanna Gonsalves came to Australia as an international student from India. She has a PhD from the University of New South Wales and currently teaches in the Creative Writing and Media Studies streams at UNSW at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and in the Postcolonial Literatures unit at Western Sydney University. She has been facilitating and teaching creative writing workshops for all ages within communities as well as at schools and in the university sector for many years. Her series of radio documentaries for ABC RN, On the Tip of a Billion Tongues, is an acerbic socio-political portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers Her book The Permanent Resident is a collection of short fiction about Indians in Australia